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Abortion: Out of fear, American women cancel apps to track their periods

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Abortion: Out of fear, American women cancel apps to track their periods

The first word most clicked by Americans on mobile phones these days is “abortion”, abortion. The second is “pill”, pill. But she is the third to have put the tech giants in awe: “delete“, Delete. It is the one with which many women are deleting apps that trace medical pathways, drugs and menstrual cycles from their mobile phones. Five days after the sentence of the Supreme Courtwhich revoked the right to abortion, turning the US into a puzzle of states where abortion is either legal or illegal, any personal information is risky.

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Fear of abortion traceability

Those who live in a state where abortion is illegal cannot go to a neighboring one, unless they do it secretly, and without leaving a trace. If on the app the cycle is interrupted for a few months, and then resumes, it can become a foothold in the trial. The Big Brother and now. Tracking apps can be evidence of indictment. “If they try to indict a woman for illegal abortion – Sara Spector, former prosecutor explained to the Guardian – the authorities can check all the apps on the mobile phone and access the data”. In theory, even a trace left on Google Maps can be dangerous. Information that points to a “trip” from Houston, in integralist Texas, to California, considered America’s pro-abortion ‘sanctuary’, can become suspect.

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Used by one in three women

Path-tracking apps are very popular in the United States: According to research published in 2019 by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a San Francisco nonprofit, nearly one in three women have one, useful for family planning, to keep health under check and plan a vacation. Apps are often used to manage medical information, drug prescriptions, data sharing, but in this persecutory climate they are scary.

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Flo’ e ‘Clue‘are the most popular’ trackers’ in the US, with a total number of 55 million users. Immediately after the Supreme Court ruling, apps – fearing a mass escape – sent messages to reassure women, explaining that personal data will remain protected. ‘Flo’ promised to launch ‘anonymous mode’ to remove all data from the account, “so that no one can identify you”. But, as the Wall Street Journal reported, in 2019 the same ‘Flo‘passed sensitive data to Facebook, Google and other platforms. “Clue”, Based in Germany, has ensured that privacy rules in Europe are strict. When in doubt, however, many women in the US have pressed the “delete” command.

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